news

See also: News

English

Alternative forms

• newes (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English newes, newys (“new things”), equivalent to new (noun) +‎ -s. Compare Saterland Frisian Näis (“news”), East Frisian näjs (“news”), West Frisian nijs (“news”), Dutch nieuws (“news”), German Low German Neeis (“new things; news”), though unlike the English word, these originated as genitives, not plurals. Sometimes erroneously claimed to be an acronym of "North, East, West, South" or "Noteworthy Events, Weather, Sports".

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: nyo͞oz, IPA^(key): /njuːz/
• (US) IPA^(key): /n(j)uz/

• Audio (US, California):

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• Homophones: gnus, nus (in some dialects)
• Hyphenation: news
• Rhymes: -uːz

Noun

news (uncountable)

1. New information of interest.

   Is there any news about the storm?

   That was not much news in the press release.

   • 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:

     VVith speede let vs impart the newes vnto my Lord the King,
     The fearefull newes that whilſt the flame doth but begin,
     Sad pollicie may ſerue to quench the fire: […]

   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 239, column 1:

     Sirra, your Lord and maſters married, there's newes for you: you haue a new Miſtris.

   • a. 1630, David Hume of Godscroft, The History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus, Edinburgh: […] Evan Tyler, […], published 1644, page 302:

     When theſe news were brought to him, ſome counſelled him to go to Stirlin, where the King was, and where he would be the ſtronger.

2. Information about current events disseminated via media.

   Did you hear/read/see the latest news?

   The news is that a new leader will be elected in one month.

   I heard about the earthquake on the morning news.

3. (Internet) Messages posted on newsgroups.
   • 2012, Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher, From Usenet to CoWebs, page 207:

     The Usenet news system brings people together from around the world and forms social groups on the basis of common interest. Usenet news is a domain that is suffering badly from information overload.

Usage notes

Formerly plural (e.g., “these news are” instead of “this news is”).

Hyponyms

• bad news
• benews
• breaking news
• fake news
• good news
• hard news
• soft news

 

Derived terms

• bad news travels fast
• bearer of bad news
• break the news
• cybernews
• e-news
• fake news
• galley news
• have I got news for you
• ill news spreads apace
• in other news
• I've got news for you
• Job's-news
• Job's news
• junk food news
• junk news
• make news
• make the news
• mumblenews
• netnews
• newsagency
• news agency
• newsagent
• newsaholic
• news anchor
• newsbeat
• newsbill
• newsboard
• newsboat
• newsbook
• newsbot
• newsbox
• newsboy
• newsbreak
• news butcher
• newscast
• newscaster
• news channel
• news conference
• news correspondent
• news crawl
• newscrawl
• news cycle
• news cyclone
• newsdealer
• newsdesk
• news desk
• newser
• news feature
• news feed
• newsfeed
• newsfilm
• news flash
• newsflash
• newsflow
• newsful
• newsgame
• newsgatherer
• newsgathering
• newsgirl
• newsgroup
• newshand
• newshawk
• newshen
• news hole
• newshound
• news-house
• newsish
• newsjacking
• newslady
• newsless
• newsletter
• newslike
• newsmagazine
• newsmaker
• newsmaking
• newsman
• news media
• newsmonger
• newsmongering
• newsness
• newsnet
• newspaper
• newsperson
• newsplan
• newsprint
• newsreader
• newsreading
• newsreel
• news report
• news reporter
• newsroom
• newsround
• news sheet
• news stand
• newsstand
• news station
• newsstore
• news stream
• newstainment
• newstalk
• news ticker
• newsticker
• newstrade
• newsvan
• newsvendor
• newswatcher
• newsweekly
• newswire
• news wire
• newswoman
• newsworthy
• newswriter
• newswriting
• newsy
• newszine
• Newzak
• no news is good news
• nonnews
• old news
• paranews
• postnews
• rolling news
• slow news day
• that's news to me
• unnews
• yesterday's news

 

Translations

new information of interest

• Afrikaans: nuus (af)
• Albanian: lajm (sq) m, kumt (sq) (random bad news)
• Amharic: ዜና (zena)
• Arabic: أَخْبَار (ar) (ʔaḵbār)أَنْبَاء pl (ʔanbāʔ), خَبَر m (ḵabar)

  Egyptian Arabic: خَبَر m (ḵabar)

• Armenian: նորություն (hy) (norutʻyun), լուր (hy) (lur), գույժ (hy) (guyž) (bad news), ավետիս (hy) (avetis) (good news)
• Assamese: বাতৰি (batori)
• Avar: хабар (xabar)
• Azerbaijani: xəbər (az), xəbərlər pl, soraq
• Balinese: orta, orti
• Bashkir: хәбәр (xəbər), яңылыҡ (yañılıq)
• Basque: berriak
• Belarusian: наві́ны f pl (navíny)
• Bengali: খবর (bn) (khobor)
• Bikol Central: bareta (bcl)
• Bole: labar
• Bulgarian: новини́ (bg) f pl (noviní), изве́стия (bg) n pl (izvéstija), ве́сти (bg) f pl (vésti), но́вости (bg) f pl (nóvosti)
• Burmese: သတင်းစကား (my) (sa.tang:ca.ka:), သတင်း (my) (sa.tang:)
• Catalan: notícies (ca) f pl
• Cebuano: balita
• Chechen: хабар (xabar)
• Cherokee: ᎧᏃᎮᏓ (kanoheda)
• Chichewa: nkhani
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 消息 (siu¹ sik¹)

  Mandarin: 消息 (zh) (xiāoxi), 新聞／新闻 (zh) (xīnwén)

• Czech: noviny (cs) f pl
• Danish: nyt
• Dutch: nieuws (nl) n
• Esperanto: novaĵoj
• Estonian: uudis, uudised (et) pl
• Evenki: мэдэвкэ (mədəwkə)
• Faroese: tíðindi
• Finnish: uutinen (fi)
• French: nouvelles (fr) f pl, informations (fr) f pl, actualités (fr) f pl
• Galician: novas f pl
• Georgian: ცნობა (cnoba), სიახლე (siaxle)
• German: Neuigkeiten (de) f pl, Nachricht (de) f, Nachrichten (de) f pl, Neues (de) n
• Greek: ειδήσεις (el) (eidíseis), νέα (el) (néa)
• Gujarati: સમાચાર (gu) (samācār)
• Haitian Creole: nouvèl
• Halkomelem: sqwéqwel
• Hausa: labari (ha)
• Hebrew: חֲדָשׁוֹת (he) f pl (khadashót)
• Hindi: ख़बर f (xabar), समाचार (hi) m (samācār), संदेश (hi) m (sandeś), खबर (hi) f (khabar), वार्ता (hi) f (vārtā), बातचीत (hi) f (bātcīt)
• Hungarian: újság (hu), hír (hu)
• Icelandic: fréttir (is) f pl
• Ido: informo (io)
• Indonesian: berita (id), kabar (id), warta (id), info (id)
• Ingrian: uutiin, noovosti
• Ingush: хабар (xabar)
• Irish: scéal (ga) m
• Italian: novità (it) f pl, notizie (it) f pl, fatto (it) m, avvenimento (it) m
• Japanese: 知らせ (ja) (shirase)
• Javanese:

  Carakan: ꦮꦂꦠ (jv) (warta), ꦮꦂꦠꦺꦴꦱ꧀ (wartos), ꦏꦧꦂ (jv) (kabar)

  Rumi: warta (jv), wartos, kabar

• Kannada: ಸುದ್ದಿ (kn) (suddi)
• Kazakh: жаңалық (jañalyq), хабар (xabar)
• Khmer: ព័ត៌មាន (km) (pɔədɑɑmiən), ដំណឹង (km) (dɑmnəng)
• Korean: 소식(消息) (ko) (sosik), 소문(所聞) (ko) (somun), 뉴스 (ko) (nyuseu), 알림 (ko) (allim)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دەنگوباس (dengubas), ھەواڵ (hewall)

  Northern Kurdish: nûçe (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: жаңылык (ky) (jaŋılık), кабар (ky) (kabar)
• Ladino: haber
• Lao: ຂ່າວ (lo) (khāo), ຂ່າວສານ (khāo sān)
• Latgalian: zine f, zinis f pl, jaunums m, jaunumi m pl
• Latvian: ziņas f pl
• Leonese: ñuncias, nnuncias
• Lezgi: хабар (χabar)
• Lithuanian: naujiena (lt) f
• Lü: ᦃᦱᧁᧈ (ẋaaw¹)
• Macedonian: вести f pl (vesti), новости f pl (novosti), новини f pl (novini)
• Malagasy: vaovao (mg)
• Malay: khabar (ms), berita (ms)
• Malayalam: വാർത്ത (ml) (vāṟtta), വർത്തമാനം (vaṟttamānaṁ)
• Maltese: ġrajjiet kurenti pl, aħbarijiet pl
• Maori: rongo, pūrongo (mi), kawepūrongo
• Marathi: बातमी (mr) f (bātmī)
• Mauritian Creole: nouvel
• Mi'kmaq: agnutmaqan inan
• Middle English: newes, word, bodeword
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: мэдээ (mn) (medee), сураг (mn) (surag), чимээ (mn) (čimee)

• Nanai: мэдэ (mede)
• Nepali: समाचार (ne) (samācār)
• Northern Altai: мэд (med), чаҥынык (čaŋïnïk)
• Northern Sami: ođas
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nyhet (no) m or f, nytt (no) n, tidende m

  Nynorsk: nyheit f, nyhende n, nytt n, tidend f, nyhending f

• Occitan: nòva (oc) f, novèla (oc) f
• Odia: ସମ୍ବାଦ (sômbadô)
• Old English: spell n
• Old Tupi: pomaranduba
• Ossetian: хабар (xabar)
• Pashto: خبر (ps) m (xabar), احوال (ps) m pl (ahwāl)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: اَخْبار (fa) (axbâr), تازِه‌ها (tâze-hâ), خَبَر (fa) (xabar), خَبَرْها (xabarhâ)

• Polish: nowości f pl, news (pl) m
• Portuguese: notícias (pt) f pl
• Punjabi: ਖ਼ਬਰਾਂ m (xabrā̃), ਖ਼ਬਰ f (xabar)
• Romanian: știre (ro) f, noutate (ro) f
• Russian: но́вости (ru) f pl (nóvosti), изве́стия (ru) n pl (izvéstija), ве́сти (ru) f pl (vésti)
• Scottish Gaelic: fios m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ве̑сти f pl (Ekavian), вије̑сти f pl (Ijekavian)

  Roman: vȇsti (sh) f pl (Ekavian), vijȇsti (Ijekavian)

• Sicilian: fattu (scn) m, nova (scn) f, nutizzia (scn) f, nuvità (scn) f
• Sinhalese: පුවත් (puwat), ප්රවෘත්ති (prawr̥tti)
• Slovak: novinky f pl
• Slovene: novice (sl) f pl
• Somali: war
• Sotho: ditaba (st)
• Southern Altai: јаҥылык (ǰaŋïlïk), мед (med)
• Spanish: noticias (es) f pl
• Sranan Tongo: nyunsu
• Swahili: habari (sw)
• Swedish: nyhet (sv) c, nyheter (sv) c pl
• Tagalog: balita (tl)
• Tajik: ахбор (tg) (axbor), навӣ (navī), навигарӣ (navigarī), маълумот (tg) pl (maʾlumot), хабар (tg) (xabar)
• Talysh: xəbə
• Tamil: செய்தி (ta) (ceyti)
• Tat: xəbər
• Tatar: яңалык (tt) (yañalıq), хәбәр (tt) (xäbär)
• Telugu: వార్తలు (te) (vārtalu), వార్త (te) (vārta)
• Thai: ข่าว (th) (kàao), ข่าวสาร (th) (kàao-sǎan), ข่าวคราว (th) (kàao-kraao)
• Tibetan: གསར་འགྱུར (gsar 'gyur)
• Tigrinya: ዜና (zena)
• Turkish: haber (tr), salık (tr)
• Turkmen: habar
• Tuvan: чаалык (çaalık), меде (mede)
• Ukrainian: нови́ни f pl (novýny), ві́сті f pl (vísti)
• Urdu: خَبَر f (xabar), اَخْبار m pl (axbār), سَماچار m (samācār)
• Uyghur: خەۋەر (xewer), يېڭىلىق (yë'ngiliq), ئاخبارات (axbarat)
• Uzbek: xabar (uz), yangilik (uz)
• Vietnamese: tin tức (vi), tin (vi)
• Walloon: novele (wa) f
• Welsh: newyddion (cy) m pl
• West Frisian: nijs (fy) n
• Yagnobi: хапар (xapar)
• Yiddish: בשׂורה f (bsure), נײַעס pl (nayes), ידיעה f (yedie)
• Zazaki: hewadis c, xeber f
• Zhuang: siusik, sinhvwnz
• Zulu: izindaba

reports of current events

• Afrikaans: nuus (af)
• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: أَخْبَار (ar) pl (ʔaḵbār), أَنْبَاء pl (ʔanbāʔ)

  Egyptian Arabic: خَبَر m (ḵabar)

• Armenian: նորություններ pl (norutʻyunner), լուրեր pl (lurer)
• Azerbaijani: xəbərlər pl
• Balinese: orta, orti
• Bashkir: яңылыҡ (yañılıq), хәбәр (xəbər)
• Basque: albisteak
• Bengali: খবর (bn) (khobor)
• Bikol Central: bareta (bcl)
• Breton: nevezioù (br)
• Catalan: (on television) telenotícies m, (on radio) informatiu (ca) m, (on paper) diari (ca) m
• Central Atlas Tamazight: ⵉⵏⵖⵎⵉⵙⵏ (inɣmisn)
• Chichewa: nkhani
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 新聞／新闻 (san¹ man⁴; san¹ man^4-2)

  Dungan: бо (bo)

  Mandarin: 新聞／新闻 (zh) (xīnwén)

• Cornish: nowodhow
• Danish: nyheder c
• Dutch: (on television) journaal (nl) n, nieuws (nl) n
• Esperanto: novaĵoj
• Estonian: uudised (et) pl
• Farefare: dãmnɛ
• Finnish: uutiset (fi) pl
• French:informations (fr) f pl, infos (fr) f pl, (on television) téléjournal (fr) m
• Galician: noticias f pl, telexornal m (TV)
• Georgian: ახალი ამბები (axali ambebi)
• German: Nachricht (de) f, Nachrichten (de) f pl
• Hebrew: חֲדָשׁוֹת (he) f pl (khadashót)
• Hindi: खबर (hi) f (khabar), वार्ता (hi) f (vārtā), बातचीत (hi) f (bātcīt)
• Hungarian: hírek (hu), híradó (hu), hírműsor (hu)
• Icelandic: fréttir (is) f pl
• Ido: informo (io)
• Indonesian: berita (id)
• Ingrian: uutiset, noovosti
• Irish: nuacht (ga)
• Italian: notizie (it) f pl, telegiornale (it) m (on television)
• Japanese: 報道 (ja) (ほうどう, hōdō), ニュース (ja) (nyūsu)
• Javanese:

  Carakan: ꦮꦂꦠ (jv) (warta), ꦮꦂꦠꦺꦴꦱ꧀ (wartos)

  Rumi: warta (jv), wartos

• Korean: 뉴스 (ko) (nyuseu), 기사(記事) (ko) (gisa), 보도(報道) (ko) (bodo)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: دەنگوباس (dengubas)

  Northern Kurdish: nûçe (ku) f

• Latgalian: zinis f or pl, jaunumi m or pl
• Latin: nuntium n, nuntia n pl
• Latvian: ziņas f pl, jaunumi f pl
• Leonese: ñuncias, nnuncias
• Lithuanian: naujienos f pl
• Macedonian: вести f pl (vesti), дневник m (dnevnik)
• Malay: Berita (ms)
• Malayalam: വാർത്ത (ml) (vāṟtta)
• Maltese: aħbarijiet pl
• Manx: naight
• Maori: kawepūrongo
• Marathi: बातमी (mr) f (bātmī)
• Mi'kmaq: agnutmaqan inan
• Moore: koɛɛga, bore, kibare sg, kibaya pl
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: nyheter (no) m pl or f pl

  Nynorsk: nyheiter f pl, nyhende n pl

• Odia: ଖବର (or) (khôbôrô)
• Polish: wiadomości (pl) pl, wiadomość (pl) f
• Portuguese: noticiário (pt) m, telejornal (pt) m
• Romanian: știre (ro) f, știri f pl
• Russian: но́вости (ru) f pl (nóvosti), изве́стия (ru) n pl (izvéstija)
• Scottish Gaelic: naidheachdan
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ве̑сти f pl (Ekavian), вије̑сти f pl (Ijekavian)

  Roman: vȇsti (sh) f pl (Ekavian), vijȇsti (Ijekavian)

• Sicilian: jurnali (scn) m, nutizziaru (scn) m, teligiurnali m
• Sotho: ditaba (st)
• Spanish: telediario m, informativos (es) m pl, noticias (es) f, noticiero m
• Sranan Tongo: nyunsu
• Swahili: habari (sw)
• Swedish: nyheter (sv) c pl
• Tagalog: balita (tl)
• Tamil: செய்தி (ta) (ceyti)
• Telugu: వార్తలు (te) (vārtalu)
• Tibetan: གསར་འགྱུར (gsar 'gyur)
• Turkish: haberler (tr) pl
• Vietnamese: bản tin, tin (vi), thời sự (vi)
• Walloon: noveles (wa) f pl (del tévé) (on television), (do posse) (on radio), (del gazete) (on newspapers); djournå (wa) m (on television, on radio), djournå (wa) m, noveles (wa) f pl
• Welsh: newyddion (cy) m pl
• Zazaki: newey n

Verb

news (third-person singular simple present newses, present participle newsing, simple past and past participle newsed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To report; to make known.
   • 1874, Robert Cowie, Shetland, page 157:

     This remark was newsed abroad; whereupon the loyal authorities of Lerwick immediately had the revolutionary skipper arrested, on a charge of high treason.

References

• News (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• news on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “news”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “news”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “news”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “news”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.

Anagrams

• sewn, snew, wens

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /njuz/

Noun

news m (plural news)

1. news magazine or programme

Mauritian Creole

Alternative forms

• nyouz

Etymology

From English news.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [njuz]

Noun

news

1. news, information

   Synonyms: nouvel, samachar

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English news.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɲjus/
• Rhymes: -us
• Syllabification: news

Noun

news m animal

1. (colloquial) news (new information of interest)

Declension

Declension of news

	singular	plural
nominative	news	newsy
genitive	newsa	newsów
dative	newsowi	newsom
accusative	newsa	newsy
instrumental	newsem	newsami
locative	newsie	newsach
vocative	newsie	newsy

Derived terms

adjective

• newsowy

 

Further reading

• news in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• news in Polish dictionaries at PWN